Monday, September 30, 2013

Santo Domingo, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) The president of the Caribbean
Baseball Confederation (CBC), Dominican Juan Francisco Puello, said that
they remain hopeful to have a Cuban team at the 56th Caribbean Baseball
Series.
"Cuba joined the founders of the tournament and won the first edition
in 1949, it is a member of the house," the CBC president told Prensa
Latina news agency.

Before referring to the reasons hindering
Cuba's long-awaited return to the Caribbean Baseball Leagues, Puello
stressed that Cuba is well-known for its baseball tradition and quality,
for its strikes, and home-runs.

Since the foundation until 1960, Cuban baseball teams took part in 12 championships and won seven of them, recalled Puello.

Cuba's participation in the event was interrupted from 1961 to 1969; Cuban
baseball teams did not return to the competition due to the abolition of the
professional sports in Cuba.

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is embodied in the OPANAL, Spanish: el Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe, English: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Cuba announced Friday that its athletes will be allowed to sign contracts to compete in foreign leagues, a shift from decades of policy that held professional sports to be anathema to socialist ideals.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

During this year’s World Baseball Classic, Cuba’s Jose Dariel Abreu hit a grand slam against China that was positively jaw-dropping. Abreu, a powerfully built right-handed hitter, loaded up on his back leg, waited on a curveball and hit a towering drive halfway up the outfield stands. Thirty major league front offices were surely paying attention.(New York Times Link)

2013.09.18 - 08:58:29 / web@radiorebelde.icrt.cuHAVANA, Cuba.- A U.S. Federal Court ordered the State Department to hand over materials on the payment to journalists that acted to the detriment of the five Cuban anti-terrorists incarcerated in that country since 1998.
This is the result of a legal demand by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF), which demands evidence of these secret payments of the White House to reporters of the city of Miami during the trial against The Five, the Prensa Latina news agency reported
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, lawyer and executive director of the PCJF, asserted that this is an important step, since these are archives that the State Department refused to circulate, since they include crucial information for the case of Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramón Labañino and Rene Gonzalez.
On June 5, lawyers of that Fund brought a lawsuit, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), against the State Department, because the governmental entity refused to reveal the requested materials.
Now the office has received a court order to hand over the documents in its possession, starting from October.
In October, 2010, the FOIA request, presented on behalf of the U.S. newspaper Liberacion, requested the documents on payments to journalists from 1998 to 2002. (ACN)

(Reuters) - The United States and Cuba concluded on Monday their second round of talks aimed at re-establishing direct mail service between the two countries after a 50-year ban, but left for later the most sensitive issue - Cuban planes landing on U.S. soil.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry said both sides had agreed to continue the talks in the near future and that it had emphasized, "working out the transportation of mail by regular direct routes in both directions," was key to their successful conclusion.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

They have to be given recognition and credit for defusing a dangerous and volatile situation in Syria.

Can you imagine what would have happenned if John McCain had been in the White House? He would have started WWIII. Why doesn't he retire to a nice nursing home to perpetually watch the Dr Strangelove movie?

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Universo Beisbolhas reported (Spanish) that the 53rd National Baseball Series of Cuba will start on 3rd November 2013.The link to the article titled Serie Nacional comienza el 3 de noviembre of the Federacion Cubana de Beisbol Aficionado does not seem to be working at this time.
I am getting the following message at their website:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0006'Overflow: 'cint'/basic/news.asp, line 5
I am sure that they will correct it soon. Software bugs do happen.In the meantime go to the main page: http://www.beisbolcubano.cu/basic/default.asp
More news and new logo as they develop.

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — At an airfield in rural Georgia, the U.S. government pays a contractor $6,600 a month for a plane that doesn't fly.

The plane is a 1960s turboprop with an odd array of antennas on its back end and the name of a Cuban national hero painted on its tail. It can fly, but it doesn't. Government orders.

“The contract now is a ‘non-fly’ ” agreement, said Steve Christopher of Phoenix Air Group, standing next to the plane. “That’s what the customer wants.”

The airplane is called “Aero Marti,” and it is stuck in a kind of federal limbo. After two years of haphazard spending cuts in Washington, it has too little funding to function but too much to die.

The plane was outfitted to fly over the ocean and broadcast an American-run TV station into Cuba. The effort was part of the long-running U.S. campaign to combat communism in Cuba by providing information to the Cuban people uncensored by their communist government.

But Cuban officials jammed the signal almost immediately, and surveys showed that less than 1 percent of Cubans watched. Still, when Congress started making budget cuts, lawmakers refused to kill the plane. (The Columbus Dispatch)

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Petition: "The Administration is considering intervening in the Syrian civil war. We oppose this. There's no vital national security involved. We are not the world’s policeman, nor its judge and jury. Our own needs in America are great, and they come first. The death of civilians is always regrettable, and civil war is regrettable, but no Americans have been attacked, and no American allies have been attacked. The British Parliament understandably has voted not to join in any attack. Notably, defense contractor Raytheon's stock is up 20% in the last 60 days. It seems that nobody wants US intervention in Syria except the military-industrial complex. I oppose US military intervention in Syria. Join me."

Various journalistic sources in the Internet are reporting
that the USA and Israel have launched a ballistic test in the Mediterranean
Sea, as they prepare their new warmongering adventure, which will put millions
in profits into the pockets of big capitalist multinational corporations.

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